Secret White House Tapes

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16–48
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • George H. W. Bush
December 8, 1971
Conversation No. 16-48

Date: December 8, 1971
Time: 11:06 am - 11:14 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with George Bush.

[See Conversation No. 632-10]

India-Pakistan War
-United Nations [UN] General Assembly session
-Vote
-Bush’s view
-Forthcoming briefing by Bush
-Administration’s policy
-Congressional support
-Neutrality
-Peace
-UN General Assembly vote
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Iron curtain
-Romania
-Ceasefire and withdrawal
-India
-Bush’s possible talk with Senators
-UN support for US position
-Africa
-Arab countries
-UN Security Council vote
-UN General Assembly
-Zambia
-Tanzania
-Morocco
-India
-UN support
-USSR
-Indira Gandhi
-View of Pakistan
-Democracy versus dictatorship
-Administration’s policy
-Intellectual view
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Tape Subject Log
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-Criticism
-Populations of India and Pakistan
-Bush’s response
-Indian military action
-Agha Muhommad Yahya Khan
-Pakistan
-Yahya Khan
-Refugees
-UN observers
-Sheik Mujibar Rahman
-India
-Gandhi
-Pakistan
-Yahya's government
-Criticism
-Internal problems
-Military action
-Consequence for international order
-Press
-Charles L. Bartlett
-John F. Kennedy
-India
-UN Security Council
-Anthony Lewis
-Editorial quoted by Indian
-Bush’s reply
-New York Times editorial
-Quoted by Indian
-President’s view of India
-Indian treatment of the President
-Gandhi
-India
-Actions
-Pakistan
-Yahya Khan
-Importance of world opinion
-Democracy
-Relative sizes of populations
-Aggression
-Democracy
-Communism
-UN
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
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